Carl-Richard

I wasn't comparing them. I was making a distinction. Both involve acceleration but they're still not the same. The car example is only to explain a point.

With absolute infinity, the answer is always: why not?

...and that's your opinion

Mood is one thing. It's possible to be in a relatively good mood while ignoring the fact that you life is shit (by doing drugs for example). Psychedelics will shove that right in your face.

Two distinctions: 1. Meditation initially removes repetitive, fear-based, self-referential thinking. It does not remove problem solving ability or planning. 2. At later stages it may dampen or completely remove any 1st-person experience of thinking, but you will still be able to function. You can say that your declarative memory becomes non-declarative. An example of non-declarative memory would be procedural memory (for example tying your shoes). When you tie your shoes, you do it without representing it in your mind (you just do it). Likewise, you can solve problems without representing them in your mind. In fact, most high-level problem solving happens "offline", outside of conscious awareness. All you become conscious of is the answer, not the full insight into the process of arriving at that answer.

Sam Harris is a necessary first step of the spirituality pipeline. I considered buying his book "Waking Up" when I was 18.

I don't understand that definition. Can you please explain it to me? ?

? Occams razor is used when you have two competing theories with similar amounts of evidence but you discard the one that uses more a priori assumptions.

Nofap has teached you many good lessons and my advice is not about forgetting those lessons. I'm only concerned about the unhealthy approach. You can take those lessons with you and integrate them into a more balanced approach. The first step is to reestablish a more conscious connection to your impulses instead of outright repressing them, and that means you don't have to be afraid to fap. You don't have to go 2 months to get the benefits of abstinence. Experiment and keep doing healthy things.

This is so perfect. Please show this to every spiritual person in the world ?

He has a health issue which is incompatible with a plant-based diet.

You got born into this world out from nothing. You got used to that. You'll get used to this.

You gotta be strategic when interacting with normies. If they show signs of walking the path, give them some bread crumbs, but don't overstep it. Feed slowly. Besides, nobody likes a preacher.

What Orange calls debate is a caricature of the potential of what debate could be.

Red - no debate; war. Blue - no debate; dogma. Orange - no debate; "debate". Green - no debate; opinions. Yellow - no debate; conversation. Turquoise - no debate.

You're acting like fap is your cryptonite. It's not. The cryptonite is the black and white approach. You go for 2 months and then you wonder why you fap 3-5 times in a row. It's not rocket science: it's unsustainable. If you're doing pickup and sports, that means you're capable of disciplining your impulses and taking a nuanced approach (there are "other ways than fapping"), so why the black and white approach only when it comes to nofap (why aren't there "other ways than nofap")? Let's say we took a black and white approach to pickup: do nothing else but pickup every day for 2 months. Does that sound smart?

You don't really get to go deep on instagram, but you do you.

I used to think like you, that nofap is some magic solution for everything. It's not. In the end, it makes you tense and restless, and then if you keep going, you eventually you lose touch with your body and your emotions. You'll never get a girl while being a stiff, emotionally repressed stick insect. Fapping in correct amounts levels you out, makes you chill, more grounded, more able to connect with people emotionally. Too much makes you drowsy, yes, but too much nofap turns you into a robot.

Have you actually confirmed that this is true after your nofap adventures or is this based on experiences before nofap era? I was in your spot, but after I did nofap, it somehow reset my brain. You don't even have to do something like once a week. Just find the spot where you don't lose too much energy. If you're able to go 2 months, you're able to go 2-3 days. This alcoholic analogy might be a limiting belief you have.

You can think about it all you want, but when shit goes down, shits for real.

@roopepa But have you tried meditating?

True spirituality will never be mainstream. Death doesn't sell.

When I realized what you just realized and stopped pursuing enlightenment and stopped meditating, it became even stronger. When you say "to hell with it – this wasn't what I was looking for" to all of spirituality, that is when you completely let go, and that is when the truth starts to shine through by itself without any effort. The effort then becomes to actively try to hold on to yourself and reconstruct a sense of illusion, and that's what I've been doing for about 1.5 year now. I don't know if that is exactly how it is for you, but that's how it is for me at least, and in one way it sucks, but in another way it's very sweet. However, if you choose to hold on, it's going to be very painful and it may seem futile, but over time you'll get used to it.

The end of that video blew my mind.